beaker

Object NameBeaker

Made FromGlass

Date1701-1800

Techniquefree-blown, enameled

SizeH: 9.5 cm; D (rim): 8.1 cm, (base): 5.4 cm

Accession Number57.3.180

Credit LineGift of Edwin J. Beinecke

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Place Made

Central Europe

Physical DescriptionClear glass with many minute bubbles; free-blown and enameled. Straight-sided body slightly tapering downward to concave base with rough pontil mark; on the body, in multicolored "peasant type" enameling, a frieze; on the obverse a man in a red coat and a blue hat holding a goblet in his right hand, and flanked by two multicolored flower stalks and spiral motifs, on the reverse, (in two lines: "liebe Du mich allein oder las gar sein" (Love me alone, or leave it altogether), the frieze is framed at top by a red band and a U-shaped line, and at the bottom by a white and blue line, two blue lines separating the two lines of inscription.

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